Workaround for the new official Minecraft Launcher (Windows)

[KillerGoldFisch]

The new verion of the official launcher renamed the launcher_profiles.json to launcher_profiles_microsoft_store.json. A workaround is to create a symlink between those two files. This way you dont have to rename the same file over and over again.

‼ This only worls on the Windows version

1. Make sure there is only the launcher_profiles_microsoft_store.json file in your .minecraft directory and it is your used version. Delete launcher_profiles.json if present.

2. Open a command line as administrator

3. Run the command mklink %APPDATA%\.minecraft\launcher_profiles.json %APPDATA%\.minecraft\launcher_profiles_microsoft_store.json

4. Check your .minecraft directory. There should now be a launcher_profiles.json file with the filetype (not name extension!) .symlink.

The launcher_profiles.json and launcher_profiles_microsoft_store.json are the same file. Every change in one of them will affect both. This way there will no confusion about which file to use.

I hope this helps.

[CesiumCs]

fucking legendary man, i'll see if i can annoy a dev to get this actually put into the installer

[TheConwayy]

THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH

[wellsilver]

You can also get the launcher from minecrafts website

[KillerGoldFisch]

You can also get the launcher from minecrafts website

Sorry, but i fail to see the relevance of your comment. Did you even read the the description?

[wellsilver]

Sorry, but i fail to see the relevance of your comment.

I downloaded the new launcher from minecraft.net (before this issue was made) and there was no issues, nothing changed